Fascinating - The lost drawings of ANGC (from Links Magazine)

[Dan Herrmann]

http://www.linksmagazine.com/best_of_golf/the-lost-drawings-of-augusta-national


I thought it was fascinating, especially the letter concerning the Augusta project.

[Tony_Muldoon]

I think you are 4 days early with this post?

[jeffwarne]

I think you are 4 days early with this post?

+1 


or 2 years late....

[Jeff_Brauer]

I still find it incredible that he would have a forced carry on a 440 yard par 4.....or that worried about his health, he somehow thought a long trip to South America would cure what ailed him, to be examined when he returned. 

For someone who knows the Mac timeline, did he make that trip to SA in the fall/winter of 1931?

[Tom_Doak]

I still find it incredible that he would have a forced carry on a 440 yard par 4.....or that worried about his health, he somehow thought a long trip to South America would cure what ailed him, to be examined when he returned. 

For someone who knows the Mac timeline, did he make that trip to SA in the fall/winter of 1931?

Of course.  He needed to make it, because The Jockey Club was his only paying client at the time.  But the timeline is in the public domain, so anyone would be able to find that pretty easily.  That's what bothers me about these various letters.  The facts are right, but the facts are so easy to find that it doesn't "confirm" anything ... it starts to look like an attempt to make them more concrete.  It works when hostages hold up the day's newspaper, but it's not as convincing 80 years afterward.

[Alex Miller]

I just read a Forbes article claiming the 13th was 410 yards in 1934. The fabric of golf history is unraveling thanks to these drawings!

[Duncan Cheslett]

If David Scott-Taylor was the Chief Surgeon at Chester Royal Infirmary in October 1931, what was he doing working as a junior General Practitioner in a small village near Wrexham at the time of his death two years later?

As far as I know, no-one has ever found evidence that he actually was a surgeon in Chester.

Just little details among very many that make the back story to the unearthing of these drawings impossible to believe.

[Dónal Ó Ceallaigh]

I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that the grammar and punctuation in this letter is well below what you would expect from an educated (medical) man of that time. He must have been quite ill. 

[John_Cullum]

If David Scott-Taylor was the Chief Surgeon at Chester Royal Infirmary in October 1931, what was he doing working as a junior General Practitioner in a small village near Wrexham at the time of his death two years later?

Perhaps he developed a phobia to the sight of blood.

[jeffwarne]

I just read a Forbes article claiming the 13th was 410 yards in 1934. The fabric of golf history is unraveling thanks to these drawings!

Which makes it play about the same length at 510 today.....

[Dónal Ó Ceallaigh]

If David Scott-Taylor was the Chief Surgeon at Chester Royal Infirmary in October 1931, what was he doing working as a junior General Practitioner in a small village near Wrexham at the time of his death two years later?

Perhaps he developed a phobia to the sight of blood.

I think he mentioned in the diaries that he was a big fan of Rugby League team North Wales Crusaders (they were formed in 2011, oops I mean 1911).  [size=78%] [/size]

[ANTHONYPIOPPI]

I have a healthy skepticism on this one. Are there other letters out there that were typed by Mackenzie from his Pasatiempo home and typewriter to which we can compare the formation of the individual typed letters from the recent find?


Anthony

[Kalen Braley]

Tony,

If memory serves me right, there is another thread going around that talks about that letter specifically and how some of the phrases were virtually unknown in the alleged time frame.

The whole thing looks very fishy to me, but I don't doubt there are sellers and collectors who would love this to be true...

[Duncan Cheslett]

If David Scott-Taylor was the Chief Surgeon at Chester Royal Infirmary in October 1931, what was he doing working as a junior General Practitioner in a small village near Wrexham at the time of his death two years later?

Perhaps he developed a phobia to the sight of blood.

You could almost write a TV drama series on that very premise...     

[Colin Macqueen]

"Perhaps he developed a phobia to the sight of blood."

[/size]Whew!  There  has been enough blood spilt on these pages for all and sundry to be phobic![/color]

[/size]Cheers Colin
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